Semi-random question

[cornbread]

What kind of hotel rooms do NBA players get on road trips??

I'm guessing it's not the typical Motel 6 type rooms I'm used to...but is it an all-out, decked out suite??

I just started wondering about it after someone brought up the fact that the Spurs got tired of being on the road in their hotel rooms or something and so they didn't bring it tonight (which I allow to be a very, very small reason for their letdown).

I was at the Westin on the Riverwalk for a party last Tuesday and the Nuggets were staying there. It's a pretty nice place.
Westin
We loudly partied until around 3 in the morning and I gave my best effort to be a disturbance. I feel like I should get one in the assist column for that.

[easjer]

Don't know about PHX, but in Houston, the Spurs stay at the Four Seasons downtown (as, apparently, do the Heat). Someone had a tip on that last year, so when some ST folks came into town, we met them there and got to see most of the players headed out to the bus and several of them came over and said hi or waved to us. I thought about staking it out again this year, but decided it was too creepy.

[RonMexico]

You just can't call it a "hostile town" if half the city is full of transplants who know nothing about the Suns and could care less.

Pisses me off, because the crowds in 1993 were so much better.

[Despot]

You just can't call it a "hostile town" if half the city is full of transplants who know nothing about the Suns and could care less.

Pisses me off, because the crowds in 1993 were so much better.

I was in Phoenix and Mesa visiting the year the Spurs played the Suns, both cities were extremely wild and supportive when it came to the Suns. Seemed like every window was painted with Suns stuff.

[mikekim]

You throw in one little reference to a hotel room, which in the context made sense, and people make it your argument... gotta laugh at where these things go (a whole new thread no less!).

haha...sorry if I put it that way...i didn't mean it that way

I did pick out one point but it was more like a catalyst for my wonderment...like going off on a tangent...like that "steve kerr wonders" thing. I don't remember all of what you said, but I remember I did read all of it...and i think it was that you brought up that spurs got complacent after winning game 1? or something? I dunno...you did bring up the fact that they were just lazy and tired of being away from home for 5 days or something. But yeah...that's not the point. The point is I remember you mentioning the beds they sleep in not being their own and that's what got me wondering and pondering about their hotel accomodations...

Sorry for bumping this thread...I just got home and I hadn't visited since a little after starting the thread.

Anyone not named Ruffin could just ignore and go on to the next post.

All I know is...I want to be in the NBA. I want to be Sean Marks and just go along for the great game seats and great hotel rooms (or Paul Shirley last year...I really liked that guy...and his blog and articles--especially the entry he wrote about SA...even if it was mean, it did have humor).

[RonMexico]

I was in Phoenix and Mesa visiting the year the Spurs played the Suns, both cities were extremely wild and supportive when it came to the Suns. Seemed like every window was painted with Suns stuff.

You talkin about back in the day? Oh yeah - you used to see windows painted... players on the sides of buses... little "Go Suns" things at people's houses.

All of that is probably very similar to what you'd see in SA right now - with "Go Spurs Go" seemingly everywhere at times. Wish the city could get back to those days of fandom, because not even the Barkley teams could pull off 2 60 win seasons in 3 years.